Happy New Year!
2012… Wow, I cannot believe how fast the past year has gone. 2011 was probably the best year that I have ever had. Of course the main highlight of the year was meeting my beautiful daughter. She really is amazing. I love her more than I could possibly have imagined and watching her grow and develop makes me so proud.
As well as having Izzy I have made a number of wonderful friends who have helped to make my life feel a lot more complete. We are happy and healthy and I cant wait to see what the next year holds for us.
At the beginning of the year I made some resolutions (see post here), and I have been quite pleased with how I have got on:
To be a better housewife – I hate cooking and cleaning and all that stuff, but I endeavour to try and improve my cooking and to stay on top of the cleaning – Well I haven’t done at all badly with this. We have cooked meals almost every night and the cooking is now split a lot more evenly between me and J, I do still need to eat a more varied healthy diet though and that will be one of my resolutions for 2012 (see below). As for the cleaning, well I am pretty happy with how I have got on with this. The house is pretty much always tidy and clean, although this is a lot easier to do now that I am home full-time. In 2012 I need to maintain this whilst also working part-time which will be a lot trickier. Izzy is starting nursery the week before I go back to work in order that she can get fully settled in, and I can start work without worrying about how she is getting on. During that week I hope to do a deep clean of the house, to get it into really good shape so that it is easier to keep on top of things in the limited time that I will have after work.
To lose weight – I want to lose any weight that I have gained whilst I am pregnant, along with some of the extra weight which I was carrying pre-pregnancy - Another success! I lost all my pregnancy weight, plus a further 8.5 lbs, taking me down to 195.5 lbs, my lightest weight in around 10 years. Over the Christmas period I have put some weight back on but am determined to get back on track and this year I WILL get to goal.
To become more environmentally friendly – I plan to breastfeed, use cloth nappies, and I also need to recycle more - A partial success. I am still breastfeeding and I use cloth nappies some of the time (usually when I am home all day) however I don’t recycle at all and this is another goal for 2012.
To blog more. I have been doing pretty well with blogging weekly. I want to try and keep this up. I love looking back and seeing where I was a few months ago, and can’t wait till it becomes a year ago or even a few years ago… I want to remember as much of my pregnancy and then Little Bean’s childhood as possible! - Well for the most part I have done this. I blog at least every 2 weeks, sometimes more often and I am already enjoying looking back over my previous posts. I hope to keep this up for the foreseeable future!
So what do I hope to achieve this year?
- Start recycling wherever possible
- Get to goal weight (140 lbs)
- Find a new job (hopefully as soon as possible after I return)
- Make Izzy a patchwork quilt
- To become more health conscious, to eat more healthily and to make sure that Izzy has a varied healthy diet
So thats it! I think that is plenty to be going on with 
